Reduce, Reuse

Recycling is not the only strategy that can effectively manage your company’s e-waste. By having employees share electronics, your inventory of electronics is reduced meaning your company will ultimately produce less e-waste. Other strategies such as using electronics for more years by increasing your refresh cycle or upgrading your electronics, purchasing refurbished electronics instead of new electronics, and donating used electronics so that they may be re-used means that you keep more electronics out of the disposal stream for longer periods of time.

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Fact Sheet 6 – Before Recycling: Reuse. Click to read.

Fact Sheet 5 – Before Recycling: Reduce. Click to read.

Profile on RET3, a non-profit recycler dedicated to the environmentally friendly disposal of end-of-life electronic equipment through recycling, reuse and refurbishing.